On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Lahar Appaiah <[email protected]> wrote:
> There have been a few left handed 'South Indian" cricketers, such as WV > Raman, Venkatapathi Raju, etc, but not enough to make an impact. Islam, on > the other hand, has produced a clutch of talented left-handed cricketers- > Wasim, Saeed Anwar, Zaheer Khan, etc. Does this mean that left-handed South > Indians are not given enough support when they are kids? Mihir Bose, in his book "A History of Indian Cricket", puts forward exactly this theory as a reason for why India has historically had such few left-handed batsmen. Given the left-handers to come into the Indian team in the last 15 years or so, this no longer holds -- no pun intended. -- Amit Varma http://www.indiauncut.com
